It was built by Timothy Palmer Bailey, on land purchased from his father's estate.

The Baileys were successful farmers, and the younger one, who was educated at Phillips Academy, built this locally rare example of an Italianate house in 1878.

The 2+1⁄2-story L-shaped house features bracketed cornices, and a main entrance porch that is elaborately balustraded and also bracketed.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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